Human Services in the Network Society (Hardcover)

The Internet and the many applications it supports continue to transform and expand the ways in which it is possible to relate, communicate, collaborate, and perform human service work. In this book, human service researchers and practitioners explore major opportunities and challenges to well being, social justice, and human service work that technology use in everyday life has exposed. Drawing on the latest research their contributions examine issues associated with human service practices in the network society, including: the implications of an expanded capacity to share human service data across agency and national boundaries; ethical issues associated with the use of remote sensing and surveillance technologies (e.g. the satellite tracking of offenders, and telecare services for older people); the risks and benefits of social network sites including issues associated with online privacy, intimacy, and safety; and the influence of technology-mediated services on human relationships and the sense of 'being present' with another person. Human Services in the Network Society will be of considerable interest to human service professionals, academics and researchers who are concerned about the social impact of networked technologies. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Technology in Human Services.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2011
First published:	2012
Editors:	Neil Ballantyne • Walter LaMendola
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	136
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-69009-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social work > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Promotions
LSN:	0-415-69009-9
Barcode:	9780415690096

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